Beautiful place to live, and amazing campus. I have a degree from there and lived in Gordon head, hillside, fernwood, and James bay. Each has their own charm. The places I would avoid living is on Quadra north of hillside (strictly residential, boring) the cook/pandora intersection and down pandora to Douglas and then up to Bay Street is pretty bad with drugs and homelessness and hookers (for lack of a better term). Also avoid Vic west, esquimalt, and Langford (far from campus and meh).
All told that's a pretty small part of town. Beware getting to deep into Gordon head or Cordova bay if you don't have a vehicle as transit is weak in those areas...
Feel free to PM me for any questions. Spent my formidable years there so I should be able to answer any questions.
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